The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-03
Pith and Point.

by the run of visitors, which is smaller than
usual this season
IT is a pity that our neighbors do not
know as well as we do what is best for
them.-BoSton Courier.
AT last we are told by the peach-growers
that there will be more peaches this year
than there has been any year since 1875.
PEOPLE who want to know whether it is
pronounced "neether " or "nyther " will
find, If they investigate, that it is either
SomerrWe Journal
IT is a sign that summer boarders have
learned some rules of health that two water
ing place hotels have been already closed
on account of defective sanitary system.
A TEXAS editor who advertised that he
would take country produce for subscrip-
tons was rendered couple of wildcats in
box but he Indignantly drew the line at
wildcats.
How is it that we so constantly hear in
cases of peril of the man who was cool and
collected " and never anything about the
man who was warm and scattered?''-
PhHddelphio cal.
IT is said that eight pin manufactures in
New England produce annually 100000
packs of pins. Each pack contains $3.50
pins, which makes total yearly production
of 6,720,000,000 pins.
PENNSYLVANIA u.s. or ought to be, the happy
land of canine. A dog in that state has a
legacy Vi Gl,JOO lnt lultItSI vi MllltU Is ue-
voted to his support. When he dies the
fund will go to church.
THIS is the time of the year when the snow
shovel, bedecked with cobwebs, sits in the
cellar window and leers at the lawn-mower,
as it rattles painfully over the places where
the grass has been kept Off
BLoBsoN: "What makes you look so
cheerful to-day, Dumpsey?" Dumpsey
My daughter left the window open yester-
day and our piano was struck by lightning
You can't imagine what relief it is"
FOND FATHER: "Talk of college not fit
ting a young man for earning living!
just as soon as Johnny graduated he OBJ
tanned splendid position" Friend: What
was it?' Fond father: " First base. "-LJe
THE professor was examining young
candidate in law. The subject being Inherit
ance, he said; When a nephew inherits
money from his uncle what has he to do?"
" Nothing in the world, mon professeur, ex-
cept to enjoy himself. "-F'rench Joke,
IT is told of Scotch clergyman that when
he was child on going home from church
he was asked the text. He replied, "Ex-
cept we pay the rent, ye maun a. lea the
parish" He had misunderstood the pas
sage, Except We repent, We shall all like
wise perish"
MRS. PARKER of Dundee, Scotland, the
founder of the British Woman's Temper
ance Association, is going to bring 1000
Scotch women to California to be domestic
servants. And the editor of the San Fran
cisco AHo says: " We will guarantee a good
place to one maid of Dundee if she can cook
ahaggis.'
He was an artist counting the daughter
of a sea-captain. While he was whispering
soft nothings in her ear in the parlor, he
was .paralyzed by the voice of the ancient
mariner in neighboring room, Cast off
that painterW But she explained that her
father often used nautical phrases in his
sleep, and the engagement proceeded to a
finish.-Cope Ann AdrertiSer.
AT Hanover, n H.. the " old pine " in
the college yard, said to be one hundred
years old, one of the landmarks of Dart
mouth, around which every Dartmouth
class for many years have smoked their fare
well pipe, was struck by lightning Thurs
day night. Considerable bark was torn
from the trunk, but the tree may not be
killed. John ID. Bridgman's barn was also
struck, but not fired.
AND now worm has made its appearance
that eats steel rails 1t is of the size of the
prong of silver fork, is of light gray
color and on the head carries two little
glands filled with corrosive secretion
which is elected every ten minutes upon the
iron. This liquid renders the iron soft and
Spongy and of the color of rust and it is
then greedily devoured by the insect. In
Germany numerous railway accidents are
found to have been caused by its voracity.
ONE night recently two ladies of Americus
Ga, were thrown into state of the widest
terror by the sound of heavy footballs in
their room Finally the supposed burglar
entered into large closet and the ladies
escaped from the room and alarmed the
house. A number of heavily armed men
came to the rescue, and the bravest of them
finally opened the door of the closet, when
there was disclosed to view not a burglar
but pet calf which had the freedom of the
10 oh oil
clothes.
IT is said that all locomotive engineers
dread moonlight nights on account of the
shadows. An engineer, looking from his
cab, sees before him all manner of shadows
He is sure that the shadow across the track
is a man or rock or some kind of obstruc-
ton. He doesn't know, and he is kept in a
state of nervous excitement all the time.
Gong around curves, along hillsides, very
curious shadows are outlined along the
track, and very often the engineer is so
worked up over nights ride that he is
scarcely able to perform his duties.
THE Concord School of Philosophy plants
itself squarely on the doctrine that in the
conception OF the totality of the regressive
synthess, with which the genealogical idea
deals, is given at once the problem of the
INFINITE, and it argues from this that the
common question of all the antimonies is
whether the tOtality of the regressve syn
thesis of conditions for anything conditioned
III the world of phenomena is finite or inf
mite. AS no diagram is furnished we are a
little in doubt whether this refers to the
labor question or the new base ball rules
Mobile Register.
Mr.. CHIMPANZEE CROWLEY is restless and
tears up his clothes, | think, because he
does not have enough TO occupy his mind,
says Bill Nye, in a letter addressed to the
Central Park commissioners. The chin
panzee, or Troglodyles niger, as we scientists
call him, when conversing among ourselves,
like all other anthropoid or tailless apes,
chafes and repines sadly unless his mind is
employed. Accustomed to free, glad life
in the Businesses of the forest, playing first
base in the cocoanut picked nine, or second
base in the tropical church choir, he hates
the ennui of summer in New York when
his young friends, with two kinds of shirts
on at one and the same time, have gone to
the seaside. OF course other people come
TO Mr. Crowleys cage and iab at him with
their umbrellas and have fun with him, but
they do not call him Cholly" and mix up
with him. They do not belong to his set.
HIRsCH HARRIS, a Polish jew, died in
Brooklyn Wednesday at the age of one hun
dred nine. He was an old man when he
came to this country. thirty-seven years ago
10 manufacture kummel- caraway cor
dial, liquor very popular among his pc ople
He has been very thrifty and managed all his
affairs until five years ago. when his powers
began to fail; and last year his memory
went, and he could no longer remember
how Napoleon looked when he rode through